Rail-anchor.



PATENTED JAN. 29, 1907.

F. A. P003. RAIL ANGHOR. APPLIO ATION FILED JAKE, 1906.

Ewe/v23)? --UNITED STATESZZPATENT OFFICE.

FRED A. POOR, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO THE RAIL VAY SPECIALTY & SUPPLY COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORA- TION OF ILLINOIS.

RAID-ANCHOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan.29,1907.

Application filed January 8, 1906. Serial No. 294.984

zen. of the United States, and a resident of Chicago, (look county, Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rail-Anchors, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to rail-anchors designed and adapted for preventing creeping of rails.

The object of the invention. is to provide a rail-anchor which will comprisea minimum. of parts and which will be simple, strong and durable, and relatively cheap of construction.

To this end a rail-anchor of my invention consists of the various features, combinationsof features, and details of construction hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings in which a rail-anchor of my invention is fully illustrated. Figure 1 is an end view of a rail-anchor of my invention applied to a rail shown in section. Fig. 2 is a top .plan view thereof in connection with a rail and tie, the rail being partly broken away. Fi 3 is a perspective view of the clip mom was of my in) proved rail-anchor in position for engagement, and Fig. 4 is a side view thereof in connection with a rail and tierand as applied in ,use.

Referring now to the drawings, A desighates a rail of a railroad-track, B a tie on which said rail is supported, and C as a whole my improved rail-anchor.

In the preferable form thereof now known to 1ne,my improved rail-anchor consists of two clip members 1 and 2, providedpn their adjacent faces .with openings 3, which conformto the shape of the edges of the base 4 of the rail A, said openings, however, being slightly narrower than the thickness of said rail-base 4, but largen'transversely, thus providing for drawing said clips into strong frictional engagement with the upper and lower surfaces of said rail-base.

The clip members 1 and 2 are adapted to be thus drawn into frictional engagement with the rail.base in the following manner. At the under side of the rail said clips 1 and 2 are provided with overlapping portions 5 and l, which engage suitable rabbets formed therein, respectively. Formed on said overlapping parts 5 and 6 are opposed. interlockmember 1 in the direction of said tie.

ing shoulders 7 and 8, disposed at similar but oppositely inclined angles lengthwise of said clip members, thereby formil'ig wed gin gsurfaces adapted to draw said clip members into-strongfrictional engagement with the rail-base 4 by forcing said wedging-surfaces 7 and 8 into enga ement with eaclrother. These shoulders will preferably be framed at right angles, or approximately so, as shown in the drawings,.ample clearance-spaces 9 and 1.0 being provided between the edges of the overlapping portions 5 and 6 of said clip members and the shoulders at the inner sides of the rabbets therein which receive said overlapping parts 5 and (i, so that the wedgin r action of the shoulders 7 and 8 will not be prevented by contact of said clips at the clearance-spaces 9 and 10. l ornred at one end'of one of said clip n1embersas shown, the clip member 1is a depending flange 11, which is adapted to bear against any suitable rigid support, the side of the tie B, thus preventing movement of said clip The flange 11 is preferably reinforced. and

strengthened by a web or webs 12, connecting the same .with the under side of said clip member.

The relation of the wedging shoulders or surfaces 7 and 8 is such that having loosely engaged said 'wedgingsnrfaces the wedging action tl'ercof willbe effected by movement of the clip member 2 toward the end of the clip 1, on which the flange 1.] is formed, and

the relation is preferably such alsothat desired engagement of said clip members with the rail will be effected before the end of the clip member 2 is flush. with the end of the clip member 1, on which the flange 11 is formed. H

The method of applying my-improved railanchor in use is as follows: The clip members 1 and 2 are engaged with the edges of the rail-base 4 in such position that when the wedging-surfaces 7 and 8 are in loose engagement wlth each other the flange 1.]. will contact with the side of the tie B or other suport. The clip member 2 is then driven engthwisc to bring the wedging-surfaces 7 and. 8 into powerful engagen'ient with (arch otl'er, which will operate in an obvious manner to draw the sides of the openings 2.5 into strong frictional engagement with the railbase 4 and at the same time to force the clip member 1 toward the tie B, thus causing the flange 11 thereon to bear firmly against the tie B. Thus the more firmly the clip members are caused to engage the base of the rail the more firmly will the flange 11 on the clip member I bear against the tie B. The objeet of the flange 1 1 is merely for the purpose rail or oti or support and that force exerted on the opposite member in the proper direetion will operate to eli'ect engagement of the Wedging-surlaees on said members and to draw said elip members into strong frictional engagement with the base (if the rail and will also tend to impart moven'lent to said clip members bodily lengthwise ot the rail to efi'eet a firm bearing ol' the clip member other than that to which the force is applied against the tie or other support.

1 claim as my invention l. Arail-aneho ronsisting oi clip members adapted to engage the base of a rail provided with interlocking Wmlging-surlfaees so disposed that toree exerted on one thereof to etfeet engagement of said Wedging-surfaees Will draw said clipmembers into frictional engagement with the base of the rail; and wilt impart movement to said clip members bodily lengthwise of the rail to provide for effecting a firm bearing of the clip member other than that to which the force is applied against a tie or other support.

2. Arail-anehor consisting of clip members provided with suitable openings for engagement with the base of a rail, a flange or rojeetion on one thereof adapted to war against a tie or othe simultaneously and by singleoperation drawing said clip members into frictional engagement with the rail-base and said. flange into firm bearing against its support, means comprising interlocking wedging-surfaces on said clip members extending at similar but oppositely-disposed angles length- Wise. of said clip members and the relation being such thatthe Wedging-surfaoe on the flanged clip member will converge toward the outer edge of said clip member in the direetion of its flanged end.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention 1' s'liii: my signature, in presence of two subscribing Witnesses, this 3d day o'E'January, A. D. 1906.

FRED A. POOR.

Witnesses:

It. A. COSTELLO, E. M. KLATCHER.

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